Prior to taking center stage in Waitress, the musical’s Tony- and Grammy-nominated composer Sara Bareilles met the press to discuss making her Broadway acting debut and the “nerve-racking and completely exhilarating� rehearsal process.
“As a songwriter and an artist, I’m performing these songs a little bit from the perspective of ‘let me share with you what I’ve already figured out,’� Bareilles says as she describes her shift from penning the score to singing it as the show’s heroine. “This is just a slightly different perspective where you’re alongside your audience, and you can’t get ahead of the thought. That’s been a shift for me—and actually, a really welcomed one.�
The three will join a cast at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre that also includes Tony nominee Christopher Fitzgerald, Charity Angel Dawson, Caitlin Houlahan, Eric Anderson, and Dakin Matthews.
